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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

Edward Albee

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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